Improvement in flues for cotton-gins



1. PEYTON.

Cotton Gin.

Patented Feb. 5, 1861.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JOHN B. PEYTON, OF RAYMOND, MISSISSIPPI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLUES FOR COTTON-GINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3l .32 G, dated February 5, 1861.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. PEYTON, of

Raymond, in the county of Hinds and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Flue for Gotton-Gins; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is alongitudinalyertical section through three sections of the flue. a horizontal transverse section through the same, showing the perforated bottom.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both gures.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention, I will proceed to de scribe its construction and operation.

A A A are three sections of the improved ilue, which fit together at their ends, one end of one section slipping a short distance within the end of the other section, so as to make one continuous flue. These-sections are all made alike, with the exception that one is slightly smaller than the other, so that the end where the cotton enters is larger than the end from whence it emerges. Each section of this iiue is composed of four plates of sheet metal. The sides are strengthened with thin boards placed outside of the side plates and the top and bottom is strengthened with a wooden frame, a,

and battens or angular ribs b b, which latter,

Fig. 2 is from the insideoutward, so that the burr will be outside and will not interfere with the passage of the cotton rolls through the due. Under the bottom of this flue-box or sections of boxes is suspended an apron or sack, B, which is made of any suitable cloth (oil-cloth is prefera-ble) drawn across the bottom of the fluebox and attached to its sides by cords, buttons and holes, hooks, or in any other convenient manner. This apron is to receive the dust, Src., which is separated from the cotton, and which escapes through the perforations in the bottom plate of the duc-box. 'Ilie ribs or battens b bare placed at suitable distances apart, and they not only strengthen the box, but they keep the apron B distended, and in tercept the air that passes through the perforated bottom, so as to form eddies beneath the flue current of air which prevent the dust, Src. from rising again into the flue-space. rIhis due-box may be made of any desirable length from eight to fteen feet, or more or less, and its largest end is attached to the mouth of the flue-space on the gin-box, so that the blast of air from the brushes will force the ginned cottonrolls through the flue-box, and effect the further cleaning and purifying of the cotton, as before described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Constructing the lue A with a sheet-metal bottom which has greater spaces between the perforations than the length of the bers, as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

JN0. n. rErTon,

Vitnesses:

J As. GRAY, J. W. PAYToN. 

